Object Record
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Metadata
Accession # |
1993.13.1.09 |
Item Name |
Set, Picnic Set, Luncheon Tin Can |
Description |
A metal tin dated to 1937. The rectangular tin (.09) has a hinged lid. It is painted gold and red with the portraits of George VI and Elizabeth. It was used as part of a picnic set dated to the early 1930s. Stored in separate locations are other pieces of the set which consist of the following: a wicker basket (1993.13.1.01), green sandwich tins (1993.13.1.03), a metal thermos (1993.13.1.06), and plastic picnic ware (1993.13.1.022). |
Date |
1937 EQUALS |
Provenance |
The picnic set was bought in the early 1930s by the donor's parents, Justice George T. Walsh and Anna Walsh (d.1938), of Toronto. The donor (b.1928) remembers it being used to go on fishing trips with his father and brother to Musselman's Lake, north of Toronto. The tin which commemorates the 1937 coronation of George VI and Elizabeth was used to hold cookies. It was not an original piece to the set. The donor and his wife then used it on picnics with their family in the Toronto area in the 1950s. Their children would play with the pieces and eventually the utensils became lost to the set. The donor and his wife have lived in Wellington County near Alma since 1979. |
Person \ Organization |
Red Cross Society Walsh, Ron Walsh, Joan (Mrs.) Walsh, George Walsh, Anna |
Place |
Toronto Alma Elora |